pothole

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Recent Examples of pothole Swerve to avoid a car that's swerving to avoid a pothole. Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025 Under Mahan’s tenure, the city’s vehicles have been outfitted with pothole-detecting cameras and its employees use AI to win multimillion-dollar grants. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025 In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins. Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025 This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says. IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pothole
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Noun
  • Climate crisis supercharging typhoons The western Pacific is the most active tropical basin on Earth but global ocean temperatures have been at record levels for each of the last eight years.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Officials say negotiations and dealmaking can’t save the basin, or Arizona, from that reality.
    Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • But Suen encourages residents in flood-prone areas to still have an emergency preparedness kit ready, along with knowing their flood risk and looking at FEMA floodplain maps for their families.
    Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The team installed beaver-style dams across the Cache la Poudre and Willow Creek watersheds — both burned in the 2020 wildfires — to help slow water flow and instead spread the water over a floodplain.
    Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • If reaching shelter is not possible, either stay inside your car, covering your head, or abandon the vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.
    Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Continue reading … TRAGEDY STRIKES – Helicopter crash kills Arizona man and 3 nieces on wedding day after canyon collision.
    , FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Two men convicted of the 2021 fatal shooting of a man whose body was found near a City Heights canyon trail were sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Shop our top picks below from $13 with everything from reusable overnight oats jars to portable salad jars for lunch, an electric kettle that boils water in minutes, and a multipurpose air fryer that doubles as a storage solution for leftovers.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
  • From antique metal napkin rings to copper tea kettles, there are so many timeless, practical items trending in value, waiting to be taken home from your local thrift store.
    Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Interest in marching in the parade was so intense that organizers implemented rigorous selection criteria like the quality of the horses’ grooming, saddles, tack, and the riders’ appearance.
    Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But by the early 19th century, some mathematicians had started exploring other kinds of geometric spaces — ones that aren’t flat but rather curved like a sphere or saddle.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The video showed the mysterious concept, dubbed Corleo, roaming rocky terrain, leaping over icy crevasses, crossing snowy landscapes without losing its footing, and traversing a dark forest at night — all while carrying an adult rider on its back and being powered by a hydrogen power cell.
    Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Sherpas know the mountain better than anyone else in the world, carving through ice in dangerous crevasses.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The South is filled with natural wonders, from dramatic gorges and massive cave systems to beautiful wetlands and pristine beaches.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Further down the gorge of TikTok depravity, there are things like TCC, or the True Crime Community, an online subculture that’s been tied to actual school shootings.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Pothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothole. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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